Did MVHS really changed Demographics so quickly in 9 years?

[Anonymous]

I am looking at the Demographics and MVHS is now 50% Hispanic, graduated in 2015 and it was pretty much 34% Black, 30% Hispanic the rest white and 5% Asians. Now is 53 Hispanic, 21% black and 15% White, nothing wrong with the change but can't believe how I changed.

[Anonymous]

Yes, neighborhoods and schools can turn over and change demographics very quickly.

[Anonymous]

White flight to private school or another district

[Anonymous]

Yes, look at how much FCPS demographics as a whole have changed even in the past ten years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White flight to private school or another district

That's not the only demographic that decreased over time. Look again.

[Anonymous]

When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.

No one is going to allow their kids to be redistricted to Mount Vernon as there is no point living in Fairfax County if your kids have to go to a bad school. It's foolish to even think that would be politically viable. You want MVHS improved? Send your own kids and be an activist PTO president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, look at how much FCPS demographics as a whole have changed even in the past ten years.

Among counties in the USA, Fairfax County was among the top 5 destination counties for illegal aliens crossing our southern border. Dade County, Florida was another. Fairfax is huge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.

No one is going to allow their kids to be redistricted to Mount Vernon as there is no point living in Fairfax County if your kids have to go to a bad school. It's foolish to even think that would be politically viable. You want MVHS improved? Send your own kids and be an activist PTO president.

There are still 1900 or so kids there attending a school FCPS has turned its back on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.

No one is going to allow their kids to be redistricted to Mount Vernon as there is no point living in Fairfax County if your kids have to go to a bad school. It's foolish to even think that would be politically viable. You want MVHS improved? Send your own kids and be an activist PTO president.

MVHS Class of 2015 - MVHS isn't a bad school. Poverty rate were high so sometimes is not easy to do well in school when nothing is right at home.
They were serval students who just didn't care and didn't complete any work or attend class, they either dropped out or were transfer to Bryant or a different school. I remember my Major Time Class, its homeroom had 15 kids on the first day of freshman year, and it ended up with 10 kids by Senior year. (some kids move, some transferred, some failed or dropped out.)
My final GPA was around 2.87, no IB classes, but passed most my SOLs, and at the end of the day its not a bad school.
It might be a bad school compare to some schools in FCPS, because they have high standards, but overall it was a pretty average in other parts of VA.
We need to remember SOLS and SAT scores are not everything.
It does have a bad rap, but if you hang out with the right crowd you will graduated and do okay in either NOVA or a 4 year school.
We did have a problem with bullying, but all schools do.
The Principal Ms.King, was funny, but she will always serious when needed, she had a strict cell phone policy, unlike other schools in FCPS at the same time, but she got to know everyone and will even buy us Chipotle and other foods. She even paid some kids to come watch the football game. Freshman year my parents were unemployed in 2011-2022 doing the peak of the Great Recession, I remember telling her something how I wasn't looking forward for Thanksgiving because what was going on at home.... The Friday before Thanksgiving she called my mom telling us where we could go pick up a Thanksgiving Dinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White flight to private school or another district

It was the blackest high school in FCPS % wise. ( I think West Po with raw numbers)
We never had a lot of white kids, they were 3-5 per class, If I remember correctly. It was like Black, Hispanic and then Whites. I am Black and I didn't recall a big change when I was there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.

No one is going to allow their kids to be redistricted to Mount Vernon as there is no point living in Fairfax County if your kids have to go to a bad school. It's foolish to even think that would be politically viable. You want MVHS improved? Send your own kids and be an activist PTO president.

That's not true at all. For a family that wants to take advantage of all the amenities near DC, affordable home costs, and send their kids to a school funded by one of the wealthiest counties in the world, it's actually a great opportunity from that lens. The financial support and programs that MVHS receives are outstanding compared to poorer rural districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.

No one is going to allow their kids to be redistricted to Mount Vernon as there is no point living in Fairfax County if your kids have to go to a bad school. It's foolish to even think that would be politically viable. You want MVHS improved? Send your own kids and be an activist PTO president.

MVHS Class of 2015 - MVHS isn't a bad school. Poverty rate were high so sometimes is not easy to do well in school when nothing is right at home.
They were serval students who just didn't care and didn't complete any work or attend class, they either dropped out or were transfer to Bryant or a different school. I remember my Major Time Class, its homeroom had 15 kids on the first day of freshman year, and it ended up with 10 kids by Senior year. (some kids move, some transferred, some failed or dropped out.)
My final GPA was around 2.87, no IB classes, but passed most my SOLs, and at the end of the day its not a bad school.
It might be a bad school compare to some schools in FCPS, because they have high standards, but overall it was a pretty average in other parts of VA.
We need to remember SOLS and SAT scores are not everything.
It does have a bad rap, but if you hang out with the right crowd you will graduated and do okay in either NOVA or a 4 year school.
We did have a problem with bullying, but all schools do.
The Principal Ms.King, was funny, but she will always serious when needed, she had a strict cell phone policy, unlike other schools in FCPS at the same time, but she got to know everyone and will even buy us Chipotle and other foods. She even paid some kids to come watch the football game. Freshman year my parents were unemployed in 2011-2022 doing the peak of the Great Recession, I remember telling her something how I wasn't looking forward for Thanksgiving because what was going on at home.... The Friday before Thanksgiving she called my mom telling us where we could go pick up a Thanksgiving Dinner.

Thanks for sharing your experience. What a kind and caring principal you had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.

WestPo's poverty rate is also one of the highest in the county. Maybe they invest in it because they don't want even more flight on that side of the county

[Anonymous]

1991 alum here.
I went to school w a Senator’s son and Congressman’s daughter.
Donald Reagan, US Sec of Treasury lived down the street.
We trick or treated at football Hall of Famer Sonny Jorgensen’s (who had a kid or two there).
We weren’t rich and while I do remember “the other side of the highway” was less well-off, I think they were still mainly non immigrant families? Thinking of friends, mainly all white from all over the boundaries.

Overall it thought it was a good school - we had winning sports teams, a fabulous marching band, great music and theater programs… it was small then too- less than 400 in my graduating class — the administrators seemed to know us (the assistant principal had a couple of kids there at the time).

Sooo many years later—Sounds like demographics are way different.

Hope they still have the MV Pride!